Towards a Unified Tool for the Management of Data and Technologies in Field Linguistics and Computational Linguistics - LiFE

Siddharth Singh, Ritesh Kumar, Shyam Ratan, Sonal Sinha


Abstract
The paper presents a new software - Linguistic Field Data Management and Analysis System - LiFE for endangered and low-resourced languages - an open-source, web-based linguistic data analysis and management application allowing systematic storage, management, usage and sharing of linguistic data collected from the field. The application enables users to store lexical items, sentences, paragraphs, audio-visual content including photographs, video clips, speech recordings, etc, with rich glossing and annotation. For field linguists, it provides facilities to generate interactive and print dictionaries; for NLP practitioners, it provides the data storage and representation in standard formats such as RDF, JSON and CSV. The tool provides a one-click interface to train NLP models for various tasks using the data stored in the system and then use it for assistance in further storage of the data (especially for the field linguists). At the same time, the tool also provides the facility of using the models trained outside of the tool for data storage, transcription, annotation and other tasks. The web-based application, allows for seamless collaboration among multiple persons and sharing the data, models, etc with each other.
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2022.eurali-1.16
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Atul Kr. Ojha, Sina Ahmadi, Chao-Hong Liu, John P. McCrae
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EURALI
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European Language Resources Association
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90–94
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Siddharth Singh, Ritesh Kumar, Shyam Ratan, and Sonal Sinha. 2022. Towards a Unified Tool for the Management of Data and Technologies in Field Linguistics and Computational Linguistics - LiFE. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 90–94, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Towards a Unified Tool for the Management of Data and Technologies in Field Linguistics and Computational Linguistics - LiFE (Singh et al., EURALI 2022)
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